Reply To: Necromunda: Dark Uprising pricing

[phaidknott 7023xp 1]

Well the whole piece meal thing with Necromunda is a complete nightmare. The fact that GW went with releasing a book of rules for each gang (rather than putting them in the original rulebook) just made for LOADS of rules “bloat” (as they padded out the books to make them of a reasonable size), along with the FOMO tactics cards (the rules are only available on the cards and not available in the rulebooks).

So when you went to buy a gang, you not only had to buy the box of minis but the additional rulebook AND cards to get the rules to play with the gang (along with the core rules in the box set). And even after releasing the Gang compendium (bringing all the gang rules together and all the errata) GW are continuing on this “Box of minis, Separate rulebook, Tactic Cards” marketing to sell you heaps of stuff (the fact you need to spend more on the rules than the mini themselves just shows how out of control it’s gotten).

I remember the days of “old” Necromunda when you got a COMPLETE set of rules in the box set, and then could just buy the minis as you wanted. They then released a second book with heaps of other gangs but that was it.

It’s the same marketing with Adepticus Titanicus and to an extent 40K (putting out the rules in faction books, limited release FOMO cards etc). But “why” can’t GW just release a set of rules for a game without all the parcelling out everything piecemeal?

Basically when you’re spending more on the rules for a game than on the minis….it’s gotten out of control 🙁